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"fear by people and how they're described as the end of society the end of humanity Etc it's happened a number of different times um how would a historian of Technology analyze my argument how would th..."

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"are building their own models I invested in this customer service company called Sierra that Brett Taylor is doing and their thing is we're not building our own models we're just deploying other model..."

"learn AI now and start trying to be a technical person or too slow okay yeah too slow no no speed matters speed matters and startups but by the way uh like gen because we tend to so much lionize what ..."

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"networking uh almost always critical because you need that initial team now you don't need networking of I should spend 12 hours a day seven days a week going to every party that I can possibly go of ..."

"there anything that's really underappreciated like when I say this I'm talking about being a nice person or being etiquette or politeness or manners are there any things like that that you think make ..."

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"marriage what is the difference between those two entrepreneurs in terms of how they'll show up in business in your view interesting I've never been asked that question uh it depends um I do think lik..."

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"yes that's our Greylock series B deck and what's pretty remarkable and by the way Matt ker how create that deck oh did he yes I mean it's a it's a pretty good deck for a series series B especially bac..."

"inflection so I'm definitely doing the co-founding thing right um and you know I I anticipate that will happen again um but will I be the CEO it's not impossible um but it's kind of like because I hav..."

"ones yeah um if you'd ask me um what book um I was going to first write when I was an undergraduate was book on friendship I still want to write that book I I've been taking notes for 30 years on frie..."

"closing tradition on this podcast where the last guest leaves a question for the next guest not knowing who they're going to be leaving it for oh and the question that's been left for you is a very in..."

"in fact a very good thing find someone who's really good and do that right I do that with my partner yeah it's it's it's great you should do it you shouldn't be because we're arguing it should be beca..."

"come to our dinners right we come to our dinners is if one of us is on you know I had this thought we want to have those dinners Founders you're investing in that are in a stable solid relationship be..."

"of life partner things did you let her down a l uh I hope not in terms of making a plan making a dat we had we had multiple plans that got blown up right and what about the dealing with the stress whe..."

"right yes Reed we are all very excited for your next book which you said it's coming out in January January yeah end of January it's a book called Super agency what could possibly go right with our AI..."

"Know Jack is a massive fan of and one of the first podcasts they ever got listening to as well highly recommend that I also have the book there and I'll link all of this stuff below Reed thank you it'..."